Should I escalate this?

[prabha_friend]

Hi All,
There is a convenient store near by my Home. In the night times, the watchman of the store gets money from drunkards and letting them liquor on its premises. Should I escalate to the Manager in the Morning?

p.s:
Not only that, He is beging everyone crossing there for 10s and 20s

 

[The_Doc_Man]

I don't know your culture's viewpoint on this, but in the USA, that is called "loitering" and, depending on the local municipal rules, would be a misdemeanor, a petty crime. The begging is not 100% illegal in the USA, but it is frequently disallowed as "illegal solicitation." Again, I have no idea what your culture calls this. The only questions YOU have to ask are

(a) Is it bothering you or your neighbors?
(b) Are you at least somewhat friendly with the manager in question? Friendly enough to know whether he would care about this?
(c) Do you think the watchman would take offense enough to retaliate before he leaves?

None of us can answer those questions. It's up to you.

 

[Pat Hartman]

Allowing petty crime to go unreported is what we call a slippery slope. Your tolerance and that of your neighbors increases for more serious crimes.

In the US, we used to be a free country where the law was enforced uniformly. That is one of the primary reasons that the poor and downtrodden from other countries want so badly to emigrate here. That was the promise of the Constitution. Half the country seems to be hell bent on overturning the Constitution and they only want to enforce the laws they want to enforce against the people they don't like. Hence refusing to enforce the laws governing legal immigration and refusing to enforce personal and property damage crimes against BLM and Antifa but keeping political prisoners for over two years for the crime of "parading".

Many people don't like to get involved with police reports and testifying so they stay mum. If there is a way to report the crimes anomalously, I would do it. Reporting the crimes and the malfeasance of his hired watchman to the store owner is risky.

My position on petty crime is if we are not going to enforce the law whenever it is broken, then we ought to remove the law from the books. As it exists, we are enforcing the law against non-criminals but allowing criminals to go free. The once lovely city of Seattle is a case in point. If a vandal paints graffiti all over a building and is caught on camera committing the crime, it is not the criminal who defaced the property who will be prosecuted by the legal system but the building owner if he does not remove the graffiti in a timely manner. That is criminal and that is what our legal system has devolved to.